A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scoffs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.6 1.5 0 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences53 0 1 0 1 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of scoffs in Corpus

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Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
She piles in and scoffs it aw. on page 30

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
her? Fuck me, Craigy son" he scoffs. "Aw that snow really hus fuc on page 77

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'Poetry competitions,' he scoffs. 'Gosh. You can hardly make s on page 40

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The wan that sits and scoffs yer grapes, spittan pips aal on page 83

1 matches

Southern

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Scoffs 'Prawn Biryani', fresh frae t on page 212

1 matches

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